Programming Leftovers
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IEEE ☛ Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability
This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away 1 January 2024. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software,” published in Computer, the magazine for members of the IEEE Computer Society, which I read early in my career as an entrepreneur and software developer. In what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30 years later, updated for today’s computing horrors. A version of this post was originally published on my personal blog, Berthub.eu.
Some years ago I did a talk at a local university on cybersecurity, titled “Cyber and Information Security: Have We All Gone Mad?” It is still worth reading today since we have gone quite mad collectively.
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freeCodeCamp ☛ Clean Code Explained – A Practical Introduction to Clean Coding for Beginners
Writing clean, understandable, and maintainable code is a skill that is crucial for every developer to master.
In this post, we will look at the most important principles to improve code quality and I will give you code examples for each of them.
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Perl / Raku
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Python
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Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
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Standards/Consortia
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Clayton Errington ☛ Adding Reply by Email - Clayton Errington
As I was wrapping up the year last year, I noticed several other blogs I followed had a "reply by email" instead of a comments section or something similar. I had included Webmentions to my website and when I post that link online, those social media sites continue to trigger the comment from that platform to be a comment on the website itself and post. This was neat to set up and worked pretty well.
I noticed a lot of the content was also being pulled from my RSS, and wanted a way for those readers to connect as well. This reply by email shows up on the website as well, and would also allow an organic user to the site be able to comment directly as well.
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